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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tokiwong" data-source="post: 1556863" data-attributes="member: 961">Chapter 6 - Part 1Lain felt uneasy as she walked along the ocean floor, through the swaying fields of kelp as fish swam lazily by in large schools, shimmering from the sunlight above.  It was strange to breathe the water as easily as she could breathe air; it was both wondrous and terrifying at the same time.  The silly grin on Dais’ face annoyed her even more, he was actually enjoying this trip, and it was enough to make her want to slap him.  But she desisted there were other more pertinent dangers in the deep.She shook her head to clear her thoughts and focused on the trail of refuse and coins that seemed to lead a path from the Stingray.  It was the only clue she had to track down the fishmen, thankfully one of her hidden talents she had learned in the forests in her youth was how to track prey, both natural and supernatural.  A skill that was being put to great use as she stalked the trail of coins and refuse.Within an hour’s time she reached an underwater cave some ten feet above the sea floor shrouded by kelp, the trail came to an end at the base of the stone and rock face that extended in both directions for several hundreds of feet.  She waved for her companions to approach, and crouched in the kelp as they walked an circled the night elf scout.She looked up to her companions, “The trail ends here, above us is a cave entrance,” she gurgled, “My best guess is that the cave may be their camp, we will need to tread carefully,” she warned.Ayala smirked, “I always tread carefully.”“Indeed,” Lain replied coolly, “Dais and I will take point, I have the keen eyes and ears, and he has the strength.”Dais nodded, “I notice stuff too.”“Sure you do, sure you do,” Lain countered.“Hey I am not totally clueless!”There was an odd silence in the group as the others just sort of smirked and tried to break into laughter.  Of course Lain failed and glided up towards the hole without another word, kicking her feet effortlessly against the salty water.  Dais grumbled as he scrambled up the incline his heavier scale mail armor weighing him down as he struggled to keep up with the nimble night elf.She crouched right at the entrance and waved for Dais to be silent.  The lowlander soldier hunkered down as he scrambled up the incline.  Lain gritted her teeth hearing the sound of Dais’ armor and heavy footfalls as she trained her eyes on the two floating fishmen who were thankfully involved in their own deep discussion to notice his approach.To call them fishmen was a misnomer, they had slim agile bodies of blue and green with fins on the legs and arms, and webbed feet with short-yellowed hook-like nails.  Their bodies were well muscled and their heads were almost shark-like with glinting yellow-white teeth flashing as the creatures spoke to each other.  Each held a trident of hardened coral, and wore harnesses carrying more of their gear and effects.  There eyes were predator like and darted back and forth as the two creatures spoke to each other in an animated motions and gurgling voices.Dais whispered to Lain as best as he could in the salty waters, “I don’t see any more then two…”Lain hissed, “I am sure there is more then two inside, these two must be sentries.”“So what are we waiting for?”“I would rather not face two, one could flee and alert the others, that is called worst case scenario, idiot,” she hissed once more.“Oh, well then,” he motioned for the others to approach motioning for them to be silent.  He turned back to Lain, “So we wait for one to leave, and then attack?”“Exactly,” she smiled, “wow Dais, you are learning,” she whispered softly.“Stop treating me like an idiot,” he scowled as he waited for the others to approach.“Well if you would stop acting like an idiot then I would-” she paused as a shadow loomed over the two.  Lain let out a quiet curse in her native tongue as she looked up into the eyes of the “fishman”.  It looked down with a look on its face that seemed to spell amusement before it started to raise its trident over its head.</blockquote>

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